Rook Lane Blog

February 13, 2024

The evening is being hosted by the Frome International Climate Film Festival, the first and only dedicated climate film festival in the world, which takes place every May. Both this film and The Climate Film Festival showcase the importance of kindness to each other and to nature, the environment, and the planet we coexist on.

August 31, 2023

Screening of Dylan Howitt’s documentary The Nettle Dress followed by Q&A

February 13, 2018

Join Architecture Club for a screening of this acclaimed documentary.

October 2, 2017

This screening is being organised by Fair Housing for Frome, a community group running a campaign during 2017 to raise awareness of, and seek solutions to, the housing crisis in Frome. The screening will be followed by a […]

April 5, 2017

PRISON (FÄNGELSE) The new season of films at Rook Lane Chapel. Join us for a classic shown the best way. Ingmar Bergman’s cinematic experiment, made early in his cinematic career, holds a mirror to the film-making process:  following […]

October 28, 2016

Hal Hartley’s reinvention of small-town life and the loves and ambitions of an out-of-kilter younger generation is peopled with intriguingly unconventional stock characters interacting not quite predictably and is a joy to watch.

September 20, 2016

Two children make an epic journey through a muted but astonishing landscape.

September 20, 2016

This atmospheric and satirical study of moral bankruptcy is played out on the sleazy side of the tracks in small-town post-war Germany. Fassbinder’s film is a garish and flamboyant cautionary tale with a wonderfully abandoned performance by Barbara Sukowa in the title role.

March 24, 2016

Set in a tiny, remote village in the Argentinean mountains, the film gets its narrative from the growing friendship between a shepherd boy and a teacher from the city.

March 21, 2016

This Tehran-based road movie features a journey, but the route is somewhat circular and unfulfilled and the end unconventional. “A beautiful and emotionally complex meditation on life and death”,